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Subject: Re: CM7000 - specifics on bugs or just a hate for CM?

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 18:25:55 10/16/99

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On October 16, 1999 at 11:45:39, Steve Strickland wrote:

>I haven't had any problems with it.  It seems to be just a few -- very vocal --
>people who have had problems with it, and assume that everyone will have the
>same problems with it.  Strangely, one guy who said it messed up multiple
>drivers said he downloaded it onto five computers or something like that, with
>similar results.  I don't get it--why would you want to mess up the drivers of
>five computers?  (It just occurred to me that my kids have an old 233 Pentium
>that probably doesn't have all new drivers I can install it into in addition to
>my own.  I'll try it out and report.)  For the most part, I don't doubt the good
>faith of the people who say they're having the problems, although some of the
>anti-Microsoft, anti-DirectX, anti-Apple talk seems somewhat outdated.  It would
>be nice to have a true count of the people who are having problems with it
>compared to those who are not.

No four computers

One stuffed up system completly.
Only worked fine on one, which was an old computer.
Other two the program still crashed and did other things, but did not kill the
system. These are computers that can be easily fixed, so I had no problem using
them.

I have counted three people who have had installation problems and there are a
few more that I know where I am who have bought it and rang back to the store
asking for help. But I have also said that it will most likely work fine on
others and the only thing they would have to worry about is the usual program
bugs.

My System that crashed was one that used to be able to run programs that other
people had trouble running on their systems. Thats was until CDM7K.

Lukily I backed up my critical work data. But this kind of thing I would expect
from Microsoft, but Mindscape should stop using the masses for testers. I
expected program bugs to remain in the program, not spread to affect my other
programs and systems.

I say good for you that it works fine, What about the rest of us who this
program stuffed up.

I will not be defending CM7K from people who want to attach it like I have done
in the past with CM6K. This program is trash, and they seemed to have stuffed up
the engine as well.



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